The Soviet government has decided to build a large cotton factory in White Russia to employ 40,000. The decision aims to partly relieve unemployment of the Jews in the small towns and opens good prospects for non-qualified Jewish workers because only ten percent of the staff need be qualified. It is understood that the factory will produce 150,000 thousand roubles worth of goods annually.
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